What’s Better: Simplicity or Standardization in Bacteriophage Nomenclature?

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Understanding Enveloped and Non-Enveloped Viruses

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Discovery: Bacteriophages Turn Bacteria into ‘Zombie’ Cells

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Saccharibacteria: The parasite that protects its host against phage attack

The potential use of Bacteriophage Lysins In the Medical field

March 20, 2022

Structure of gram-negative bacteriophage lysin. credit Fischetti (2019) Phage lysins are specialized hydrolytic cell wall enzymes that are used to rupture phage-infected bacteria and release…

Are Phages Microbiome-Friendly Therapeutic Approach?

March 4, 2022

Introduction Antibiotics are the most frequently prescribed class of drugs in the US and many other parts of the world. However, they have become…

Can the Bacteriophage Mutants be the Next Generation Carriers for Conjugate Vaccines?

February 26, 2022

Passing through several waves of the deadly pandemic brought the human race into consideration of doing extensive research on vaccines. It is no doubt…

How do bacteriophages transfer antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs)?

February 24, 2022

An illustration of ARG transfer by T bacteriophages Because of the rise in antibiotic resistance, effective prevention of pathogens is becoming a pipe dream….

The accessibility of phage therapy services

January 27, 2022

where do people get phage therapy? Despite the reinstated attention it has gained in recent years, Phage therapy is still limited to only some…

DendriPep: Innovative macromolecules that stabilize bacteriophages as a medicine

January 16, 2022

In the world of booming antimicrobial resistance, scientists worldwide struggle to find a proper method of treating superbugs. Recently, the savior has been recognized…

Preparation of LB (Luria-Bertani) agar

January 1, 2022

Luria-Bertani is the most preferred media to be used in phage research. This protocol describes how to make 1 L of Luria-Bertani agar (also…

Plaque-Based Optimization of the Phages Lytic Characteristics

December 26, 2021

The isolates of wild lytic phages from the transient stocks are propagated with the corresponding host bacterial isolates and the representative standard reference bacterial…

Production of the Transient Phage Stock

December 26, 2021

Procedure Cut 5–10 plaques with a sterile Pasteur pipette and place them in 1.5 ml sterile Eppendorf micro-centrifuge tubes. Add into 300 µl of…

Procedure for Phage isolation

December 26, 2021

Procedure Collect crude specimens of approximately 50 g or 100mls of any targeted sample in a sterile sample collection tube (100 ml). Mix…